Recorder.



H. T: Grossa; J. w. BRYCB;

RECORDER.

APPLIUATIOH FILED 0012.5. v1906.

Patented Jan. 12, 1915.'

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BY l MUN 6 ATTORNEYS States,

specmcation or Letters ment. Driginal application tiled August'SO, 1805, SeriaLNo. 276,381.

Dividedand this application iled October 5,

1906. Serial10.837,'567.

To all/whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY T. Goss and JAMns W. Baron, citizens of the United and residents of Rutherford, county of Bergen, and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Recorders, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to devices for effecting or controlling the movement of indieating mechanism in recorders. It has special value in corders, and particularly in connection with machines for indicating elapsed times, as, for example, the elapsed time between the starting of work on a particular job, and the stopping of work thereon. -Our` invention,

vupon it; Fig. 3 illustrates the .machine has completed its operation and the elapsed time inhours and .be

' modification of owever, is not limited to devices for use in such machines, machines; for example, in machines for indicating other diii'erences than those of time, as differences in money values.`

ln the drawings accompanyingv lthis specification and forming a part hereof, and in the parts of the spec1tication descriptive of such drawings, we have shown and described our improved device vas embodied in the form of a card as used in a machine for indicating elapsed starting and finishing of a job. Our invention, however, may be embodied in other mediums than a card, and is not limited to a device separate and removable from the indicating machine withwhich it 1s to be b used, as is the the drawings.

Our invention consists in the novel devices herein set forth.

Referring to the specific form or embodiment of the invention shown yinthe drawings, Figure 1 represents a card adapted for use in a time recorder for indicating elapsed times; Fig. 2 illustrates the card after the starting identification mark has been placed card after the case with the card shown in has printedA minutes upon the card; Fig. 4 represents a our improved card from which-the scale has been omitted.

Referring to the embodiment of our-invention shown in thedrawinggl' represents connection with time reutes, respectively,

as it may be used in other times,l as between they midnight and 3 indicating the minutes.

These scales are arranged upon the card preferably parallel to one another, and preferably also to an edge of the card and at a predetermined distance therefrom, dependent upon the "particular machine in which the, card is adapted to be used. The card is also preferably provided with suitable wording having blank spaces 4 and 5 within which the elapsed time in hours and minis to be printed in the operation of the machine in which our card isintended to be used. Any suitable words indicating the purpose'or location of these spaces may be employed. The form of card shown in the drawings, igs. 1 to 3, is intended and adapted to used with a starting time identifying recorder. The card is so constructed as to be adapted to be inserted in a slot of a suitable machine, such as is shown inpatent granted to' applicants January 7th', 1913, No. 1,049,473. Upon the operation of suitable operatingdevices connected with such machine punches are intended to be brou'ght into contact with the therein. The location of these punchesvat the time'of punching the holes and, consequently, the location of the holes punched y them along the scales of the card, are dependent upon the clock work mechanism of the machine. Accordingly, the location of the holes, thus punched along `the hour 'and minute scales, will represent the hour and minute when the card was inserted in the slot of the machine'and the machine operated. Such holes will constitute starting identification marks and in the particular instance shown these aref'fstarting time identification marks. In Figs. 2. and 3 such holes are marked 6 and-7.

en the measured im time-upon the card is finished, the workman inserts the card either in the same or another slot of the machine, and the machine is again operated. Suitable devicesare caused to pass over the card card to punch holesV Patented Jan. 12, 1915.

job or ,other Work which is to and to' be stopped or affected inv their move- -v renting in their movement the time when the machine 1s operated. This travel of the tvpe wheels from the time they are started -bv mechanism controlled by the identification marks 6 and 7 until stopped bythe clock movement, will cause the proper type `representing the hour and minute of such elapsed time to stand opposite the blank spaces 4 and 5 representing' the hours and minutes, and suitable printing devices will 1 cause such hourand minute to be printed in the spaces. As shown in Fig. 3, ie elapsed time is shown as printed two hours and forty seven minutes.

It will, of course, be understood that any suitable machine for placing the starting identification marks upon the card may be employed, and any suitable machine adapted to be controlled by such'marks may be used for indicating the time that has elapsed between the time these marks were placed upon the card and the end of the operation. As such a machine forms'no part of the present application, it is not shown and described further than above. A suitable machine for this purpose is shown and described in Patent No. 1,049,478, issuedto us January 7th, 1913, on an application of ours known as Serial No. 276,361, filed August 30, 1905, for recorders, of which application this is a division. i

It is not essential that either an hour o minute time scale be used upon the card. Any other suitable scale may be employed, or the scale may be entirely omitted. In Fig. 4 we have shown a card without a scale. It is provided preferably with two alining marks 12, 12. The holes 8 and 9 on this card indicate the hour, and minute starting time identification marks. The alining marks 12, 12 and the scales in the other iigures have the function of enabling the operator to determine whether the holes are punched in the proper place on 'the card relatively, and in the card of Fig. 4 they form a means of indicating to the operator the difference between the hour and minute identification marks. The blank spaces 10 and 11 on card 4 are for the same purpose as the blank spaces 4 and 5 on the card of Figs. 1 to 3.

It is not essential that the starting identication marks in the card take the form, shown in the drawings, of holes punched into the card as any other marks capable of being recognized or identified by identifying or selecting devices may be employed. Thus they are not limited to holes punched through thebody of the card, or to cuts made 1n other arts or places of the card, as for example, a ong an edge thereof, but may be projectingparts formed by adding other material to the card or by Vturning up parts` thereof, or they may be any marks| suitable for the purpose.

The form of card shown in Fig. 4 is especially useful where it is 'desired lto disconnect the means which control the indication of the elapsed time from the clock movement controlling said means, as, for example, during the noon hour. ln such a case a time scale such as is shown on the other figures would be incorrect. ylf a scale were printed on the card in such a case there must necessarily be omitted from it the time of such disconnection. Nor is it essential that our improved device take the form of a card, nor that it be separate or removable from the indicating machine with which it is adapted to be used.

What we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1. A card, adapted for use in a machine for indicating elapsed time, provided with two starting identifying marks arranged upon the card in dierent lines, one mark representing by its location upon the card relative to one end thereof a particular minute of time, and the other mark representing by its location upon the card relative to one end thereof a particular hour.

2. A card, adapted for use in a machine for indicating elapsed time, provided with two parallel scales, one provided with subdivisions representing the hours,and the other provided with sub-divisions representing the minutes, and also provided with two starting identifying marks, one along one scale and the other along the other scale,

, one representing by its location-on the card relative to such scale a particular minute of time, and the other mark representing by its location along the other scale, a. particular hour.

3. A card, adapted for use in a machine senting by its location on the card relative to such scale the minute a particular minute of time, and the other mark representing by its location along the other scale, a particular hour, and said card having printed thereon the elapsed time in hours and minutes represented by said marks.

4. A card, adapted for use in a machine for indicating time, provided with a starting time identifying mark located upon the card in such a position relative to one end of the card as to represent the time when such mark was placed upon the card.

5. A card, adapted for use in a machine momie for indicating time, provided with a starting time identifying mark located upon the aard in such a position relative to one end of the card as to represent the time when such mark was placed upon the card and capable of starting into operation the time indicating mechanism of such machine.

In testimony whereof, We have signed our HARRY T. GOSS. JAMES W. BRYCE.

Witnesses H. CnooHnRoN,

EDWIN SEGEB. 

